Topic One: Getting Started
When starting your own website it is important to start with a plan. Making sure that you have a plan and goal that can be achievable. Planning is very important, and there is no such thing as over planning. When you plan ahead of time it can save you a lot of time and problems in the future. Checking out other sites while you are in the planning phase can really help you out, learning from others successes or failures can really help your site.
Topic Two: Planning Checklist
There are five steps to planning a website, starting with your client. Knowing how they are involved is very important. Are they giving you a set of colors, and fonts, or are you just doing what you creatively feel? The next is the user or the target, knowing who you are designing for is very important understanding them and their behavior can really benefit your site. Then, the budget, knowing how much your client is willing to spend will tell you how much you are able to do. The next thing is the technology, knowing how your site is going to be used, and where it is going to be used is important in making a clean and well-structured site. And finally, the future, plan for it. Make sure your plan isn’t just getting the site out there as quick as possible but as “future-proof” as possible.
Topic Three: The Joy of Tech
Knowing how technology works is one of the most important things. Where the site is going to be viewed, and knowing and understanding how a site will transform from one device to the next. It is also important to note how this page is going to be managed once it is designed. This will make it so you know someone might be going in to change in the future. And if you are working for a company who already has a site designed, will you be taking the information they already have out there and put it in the new site? Or will be all be new to the internet? This is all data that needs to be organized properly.